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Articles in April 30, 2007 issue of National Review

• Stickless
• John Connally raised $11 million, then a huge sum, for his presidential run in 1980, and won only one Republican delegate
• The timing of the Commerce Department's decision to impose tariffs on paper imports from China looks suspiciously like a Bush-administration attempt to placate Democrats, manufacturers, and Big Labor on the eve of a major trade deal
• Gays, some have opined, don't want marriages so much as weddings
• Please Consider
  by W.H. von Dreele
• Scoop, Inc
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• We have one more divorce among Republican presidential candidates
• Just in case you ever wondered what, exactly, a person needs to do to get a doctorate in education, here's a clue
• Contract and covenant: in search of American identity
  by Richard John Neuhaus
• Naturalism
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Republican senators Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Richard Burr of North Carolina have put together several sweeping free-market health-care reforms in one bill, the "Universal Health Care Choice and Access Act."
• Pelosi abroad
• Senator Obama predicted that, following a veto of the supplemental Iraq spending bill that includes the Democrats' troop-withdrawal deadlines, his colleagues would pass a bill without the deadlines
• On the night of April 5, the Missile Defense Agency launched an interceptor from Hawaii
• Giuliani's abortion pratfalls
• FDR, Gladys Cooper, and all that
  by Florence King
• Senator McCain went to Iraq as part of his campaign to support the surge—a bold strategy, tying his prospects to the war's
• The recent episode of the British hostages in Iran brought to mind the late Adm. James Stockdale
• A CEO for the USA? On the trail with Manager Mitt
  by Richard Lowry
• His long war
  by Mark Riebling
• The Iraqi police force in the lethal Sunni stronghold of Anbar Province has 4,500 recruits, compared with 100 a year ago
• Muslim authorities in Britain refuse to participate in Holocaust Memorial Day, and they have heard the Church apologize for the Crusades that date back to the 11th century
• Trade trouble: the new democratic majority in Congress is putting up barriers
  by Ramesh Ponnuru
• Pilgrim's progress
  by Andrew Stuttaford
• Don Imus is a beetle-browed radio yukster with highbrow pretensions
• Bad show
  by W.H. von Dreele
• For a new consensus: what our immigration politics sorely needs
  by Kate O'Beirne
• Wild child
  by David Pryce-Jones
• To your tents, o Israel
  by George Jochnowitz
• The French are about to hold a presidential election
• A General climate of fear: shadows lengthen from the Kremlin
  by David Pryce-Jones
• Repairing the right
  by S.T. Karnick
• In 1999, as he prepared to run for president, George W. Bush came to rely heavily on the services of pollster Matthew Dowd
• Covering the war
  by Glenn Hoge
• During all the years we have been debating global warming, Congress has refused to enact legislation regulating carbon emissions or authorizing the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate them
• Like the Iran—Iraq war
  by Jonah Goldberg
• Baldly back: guess what? Our national bird is flourishing
  by John J. Miller
• Creature feature
  by Ross Douthat
• Add a name to the roll call of national nuisances and sowers of discord
• Tobacco jubilee
  by Paul Gleeson
• The case for Alger Hiss's treason was powerful in 1950, when Hiss was convicted of charges related to espionage
• Anti-Americanism, ever with us: reflecting on a stubborn ideology
  by James W. Ceaser
• At Benjamin Pond
  by Michael Creagan
• Travels with Nancy
  by Rob Long
• In 2006, Congress made it as clear as it possibly could that suspected-terrorist detainees have no right to challenge their detention in federal court
• The high school of Burlington Township, N.J., held a terrorism drill so that the students and teachers would know what to do if the school were attacked
• Let's call the whole thing off
  by John S. White, Jr.
• The modern use of the president's recess-appointments power as a way of getting around congressional opposition is constitutionally dubious
• "If you see something, say something."
• Rudy as prosecutor: the glorious career of a high-profile attorney
  by Jennifer Rubin
• John Edwards will give you free health
  by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• The human strain
  by Richard Brookhiser